Abstract:
The issues of good rural land administration in the developing (third world) countries is the issues
of survival and rural land administration as a process face multiple and dynamic challenge’s that
these challenge affects the rural dwellers(farmers) in different directions and perspectives.
Therefore, this study aims to adressed the challenges and opportunities of rural land
administration in the case of Laygaynt Woreda, south Gonder zone Amhara Region Ethiopia. So,
as to achieve the objectives of the study, both primary and secondary data are taken. Firstly,
primary data is collected through interviewing and questioning from those people whom to
concern such as rural land administrator, farmers and lawyers accompanied by focus group
discussion, interpretation of report letters and critical observation. Secondly, secondary data is
also collected from different published and unpublished documents such as journals, legal
documents, books, research findings and articles. As a research finding shows, rural land
administration as a process faces multiple challenges from different perspectives. Forinstance, the
gaps on legal framework on rural land administration and use proclamation in relation to land
holding right, re-distribution of land, expropriation and compensation of land and inheritance
including land registration and certification are common problems in the study area. From land
management paradigm, fast human population growth and unplanned expansion of urbanization
along with institutional and human constraints in the enforcement of legal provision and rights
are other constraints to land administration in the study area. In addition to these, challenges
highly affect on rural dwellers in terms of land tenure security and are a means to inequality,
joblessness, conflict, and improper utilization of arable land in the study area.The practical
implications as a policy recommendation should be reviewing regional and federal rural land
policy, strengthening institutional framework of land administration, designing participatory
policy and decisionmaking procedure on land administration and building capacity on agrarian
reform that can be able to address land related problem in the process of land administration.
